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The department has also emphasized that IDEA shouldn’t stop schools from providing any instruction at all. Recently, DeVos has issued guidance reiterating that schools must comply with IDEA as they move to remote instruction. DeVos is tasked with preparing a report within a month in which she offers recommendations for additional flexibility under various federal laws, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The bill does not give DeVos authority to waive any part of IDEA, but it does take a small step in that direction. 🔗What about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act? The bill says explicitly, though, that DeVos cannot waive any provisions pertaining to civil rights. States that get such waivers will have to hold constant its list of schools considered low-performing. The law codifies the education secretary’s ability to waive parts of the federal education law requiring testing and identification of low-performing schools.ĭeVos has already said states can cancel testing this year and introduced a streamlined process for states to request waivers. 🔗What new authority does this grant Education Secretary Betsy DeVos? Continuing to provide district-level services and employ staffers.Planning and providing in-person or online summer learning programs and after-school programs.Items principals need “to address the needs of their individual schools”.Buying technology, including connectivity, to help students continue learning, including adaptive equipment for students with disabilities.Coordinating long-term school closures, including meals, technology, and serving students with disabilities.Efforts to help students from low-income families, students with disabilities, English learners, “racial and ethnic minorities,” homeless students, and students in foster care.

Supplies for cleaning and sanitizing schools and school district buildings.

🔗What will schools be able to spend money on?ĭistricts will be able to use their portion of the $13.5 billion on a wide variety of things, including: Their choices: school districts deemed “most significantly impacted by coronavirus,” colleges and universities, or any other school district or “education related entity,” including those providing child care and early childhood education. Then governors decide where the money goes.

Each state’s share will be determined by its population of children and young people.

State education departments could choose to spend the rest themselves, including through “grants or contracts.”

States must give at least 90% of the money they receive to districts.

States will divide that money up among districts and charter schools the same way, with districts and schools that get more Title I funding getting more coronavirus relief funding.

Each state’s share will be determined by how much money it currently gets through Title I - meaning states with more low-income students will get more money.

🔗Who’s getting money for education?įor the $13.5 billion to states and school districts: Here’s what we know about what this means for schools. “Congress must understand that tens of billions dollars more will be needed going forward to truly support all students, counter the learning loss happening through school closures and prevent educator layoffs.”The bill also includes language allowing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to waive parts of the federal education law. “As revenues decline and state and local governments’ budgets suffer, Congress must help prevent dramatic cuts from hitting our schools,” said National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García in a statement.

Others praised the extra money, but warned that with a recession looming it should be seen as just a start. “We applaud Congress for reaching a bipartisan solution that provides historic levels of emergency funding.” “States are facing mounting costs in dealing with this unprecedented crisis,” Carissa Moffat Miller, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, said in a statement. Some education advocates quickly praised the legislation.